John Rowe
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This groundbreaking book should definitely help further the movement of what the authors call "a new gerontology." John Rowe, M.D., and Robert Kahn, Ph.D., both members of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network, thoroughly debunk the myth that aging has to be a painful process of debilitation.
2) Swann's way
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The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time, also known as Remembrance of Things Past, Swann's Way is the auspicious beginning of Proust's most prominent work. A mature, unnamed man recalls the details of his commonplace, idyllic existence as a sensitive and intuitive boy in Combray. For a time, the story is narrated through his younger mind in beautiful, almost dream-like prose. In a subsequent section of the volume, the...
3) Smudge
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Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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An old rat recalls an adventure from his younger days when he was carried off by a bird, a dog, a rabbit, and other animals, before finding his way back where he belongs with his very own family.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
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"Widely acknowledged as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's adventure story of a shipwrecked sailor became an instant classic upon its publication in 1719 and the yardstick for countless castaway narratives to follow." "Robinson Crusoe, an English sailor, finds himself marooned on a desert island after the rest of his shipmates drown in a terrible wreck. He survives on the island for nearly three decades, domesticating livestock, cultivating plants,...
8) I wonder
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[2013]
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Eva takes a walk with her mother and encounters a range of mysteries: from gravity, to life cycles, to the vastness of the universe. She learns that it's okay to say "I don't know", and she discovers that there are some things even adults don't know mysteries for everyone to wonder about together!
10) The jungle book
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2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book," focusing on stories that feature Mowgli, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the panther.